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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1991

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Hine, Barnes, Valle, Heavey, Lux and Leonard

Read first time 2/3/88 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to electric energy facilities; and amending RCW 35.84.020.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 35.84.020, chapter 7, Laws of 1965 and RCW 35.84.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          Every city or town owning its own electric power and light plant may acquire, construct, purchase, condemn and purchase, own, operate, control, add to and maintain lands, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, distribution systems, substations, inter-tie or transmission lines, to enable it to use, purchase, sell, and dispose of electric energy inside or outside its corporate limits, or to connect its electric plant with any other electric plant or system, or to connect parts of its own electric system:  PROVIDED, That no city or town may construct distribution systems, substations, inter-tie or transmission lines except with the approval of a majority of the appropriate legislative body of the city, town, or county in which the construction is to be situated.